Re: fetching unset GParamSpec property

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sep 6, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:

> Kevin Ryde wrote:
> > > I just committed a patch that implements the latter approach.
> >
> > Don't forget the constructors returning null for bad args too.
>
> With the recent commit, these tests now actually pass.   
> Unfortunately, they also
> print very noisy warning messages, so unless there's a way to  
> suppress those, I
> don't think we should add the tests.  Handling NULL GParamSpecs is  
> tested
> already at the end of t/e.t anyway.

You *can* suppress those messages, by using a log handler.

    Glib::Log->set_handler ('GLib-GObject', 'critical', sub {
            print "Hijacked failed assertion message: $_[2]\n";
    });

I'd be tempted to add an ok(1) in there, but you can build glib with  
assertions turned off.

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